Statement by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the fires in the Attica region and other parts of Greece

“From the very beginning, we have been following with sadness the dramatic developments in the Attica region, due to major fires that have been destroying human lives, the property of the inhabitants, and burning the vital wealth of the forest. Our prayers, in those difficult times, intensify and unite with those of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, of the metropolitans of the affected regions and of all those